[meteorite-list] Christie's Meteorite Auction

[Raremeteorites]

Wow, after following this auction I was surprised.

http://www.christies.com/results

The top items were a 434 gram Seymcham Pallasites sphere that sold for an 
amazing USD $303.08/gram ($131,535.00) followed by a NWA 155 kilogram, H6 
ordinary chondrite that realized USD $6.81/gram ($105,939.00)

 I believe the top price per gram honor went to a 6.43 gram NWA 8306 Lunar 
Meteorite which realized USD $2777.34/gram ($17,775.00)

In total, the entire auction only realized USD $820,895.41 with most key 
pieces failing to sell.  I thought for sure somebody would pick up the 
Zagami Martian Meteorite Main Mass which seemed reasonably priced to me at 
around USD $250.00/gram, especially when a Pallasite that normally sells for 
around $5.00/gram realized over USD $300.00/gram  if the auction results are 
not in error and the sale is completed.

Perhaps prospective buyers were not educated properly to the importance of 
some of these pieces or the venue was improper.  In any case, the results 
were very surprising and unexpected to me since I have sold much more than 
the entire auction amount over the years on eBay.

Adam



On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:08 AM, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:

> Thank you Darryl.
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> But how do we see the hammer price on all those pieces?
> Will Christie publish those prices?   and where?
> Thanks.
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darryl Pitt via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 4:25 pm
> Subject: [meteorite-list] REMINDER:  Christie's Auction Tomorrow
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>
> Hi,
>
> CHRISTIE'S Auction Tomorrow in London.  2.30p / (GMT+1)  Catalog – 
> http://bit.ly/23DlL8D
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> It's worth noting...
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> — Several lots have no reserve;
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> — There is a benefit to those paying in US dollars.  Due to currency 
> fluctuations, CHRISTIE'S current USD auction estimates are about 8% lower 
> than those printed in the catalogue.  To track the current exchange 
> estimates, go to the CHRISTIE'S website http://bit.ly/1qp6Osq and look at 
> the “grid view” where the real-time dollar amounts can be compared with 
> those in the downloadable e-catalogue—which, again, can be seen here: 
> http://bit.ly/23DlL8D
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> Best of luck,
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